Document how to tell git to not launch a pager

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-mirror · Jul 20, 2007 · a7738c7 · a7738c7
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 	See gitlink:git-merge[1]
 
 'GIT_PAGER'::
-	This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`.
+	This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`. If it is set
+	to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch
+	a pager.
 
 'GIT_FLUSH'::
 	If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such